Welcome to the Training Institute
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TRAINING INSTITUTE ON HISPANIC DRUG ABUSE - JUNE 2 - 13, 2010
Research Education Program
The IRTI will provide three core activities to prospective research fellows including: Training, Mentoring and Networking. The IRTI aims to ensure a constant support infrastructure for fellows to conduct, present, publish and acquire funding for drug abuse research. To achieve this, the IRTI will conduct an intensive interdisciplinary training program along with a formal mentorship program. To foster a formal mentoring relationship between the fellow and a senior faculty mentor, the IRTI will provide a variety of organized mentorship activities for each of the participating fellows during a period of two years. These will include mentor commitment and support for travel to 1) mentor institution, 2) conferences/ workshops and 3) IRTI Mentoring Annual Meetings.
Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute Summer Program
The IRTI on Hispanic Drug Abuse Summer Program will be the core activity of the training program. Selected fellows will attend a 12 day interdisciplinary training, led by NIDA funded scientists. The training will include a series of didactic sessions of lectures imparting general and specialized knowledge and specific research skills. An equal balance of clinically focused social and behavioral scientists and biomedical scientists will lead this training. Additionally, fellows can choose one of two intensive workshop series specific to the socio-behavioral or bio-medical areas of Hispanic drug abuse. The summer program will integrate the overarching theme of translational research bringing the social, behavioral, biological and medical sciences to the clinic or to community prevention and service provision. During the course of the 12 day program, fellows will have the opportunity to meet, receive consultation and begin to foster potential mentoring relationships with senior faculty with expertise in the fellows’ area of interest. The fellow will be required to develop a research prospectus during the course of the summer program. This will take the form of an abbreviated (8 pages) NIH research application. The prospectus will be submitted and presented on the final day of the institute.
For more information, please call Evelio Escamilla, Institute Coordinator, (713) 743-8345 or e-mail eescamilla2@uh.edu..